I wanted to be a part of something special and contributing to the launch of a new league was very exciting to me.

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• Rickey Henderson:

  I love playing this game and every spring training feels like the first.

• Rickey Henderson:

  I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

• Rickey Henderson:

  I did so many things that made me a threat.

• Rickey Henderson:

  In baseball you train the whole body, except for the hip and eyes.

• Rickey Henderson:

  Once you can accept failure, you can have fun and success.

• Rickey Henderson:

  I love talking about baserunning.

• Rickey Henderson:

  Even the slowest guy can go from first to third and help win a ballgame.

• Rickey Henderson:

  Rickey don't like it when Rickey can't find Rickey's limo.

• Ron Eglash:

  If you take your thumb and your index finger and look right where they meet - go ahead and do that

• Ron Eglash:

  Now in the 1980s, I happened to notice that if you look at an aerial photograph of an African villa